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most citedDeep Learning for Encrypted Traffic Classification: An Overview

665 citations · 922 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CV2025

Domain Generalization in-the-Wild: Disentangling Classification from Domain-Aware Representations

Ha Min Son, Zhe Zhao, Shahbaz Rezaei +1

Evaluating domain generalization (DG) for foundational models like CLIP is challenging, as web-scale pretraining data potentially covers many existing benchmarks. Consequently, cur…

cs.CV2025

FixCLR: Negative-Class Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Domain Generalization

Ha Min Son, Shahbaz Rezaei, Xin Liu

Semi-supervised domain generalization (SSDG) aims to solve the problem of generalizing to out-of-distribution data when only a few labels are available. Due to label scarcity, appl…

cs.LG2025

On the Necessity of Multi-Domain Explanation: An Uncertainty Principle Approach for Deep Time Series Models

Shahbaz Rezaei, Avishai Halev, Xin Liu

A prevailing approach to explain time series models is to generate attribution in time domain. A recent development in time series XAI is the concept of explanation spaces, where a…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Explanation Space: A New Perspective into Time Series Interpretability

Shahbaz Rezaei, Xin Liu

Human understandable explanation of deep learning models is essential for various critical and sensitive applications. Unlike image or tabular data where the importance of each inp…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Benchmarking Counterfactual Interpretability in Deep Learning Models for Time Series Classification

Ziwen Kan, Shahbaz Rezaei, Xin Liu

The popularity of deep learning methods in the time series domain boosts interest in interpretability studies, including counterfactual (CF) methods. CF methods identify minimal ch…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

On the Discredibility of Membership Inference Attacks

Shahbaz Rezaei, Xin Liu

With the wide-spread application of machine learning models, it has become critical to study the potential data leakage of models trained on sensitive data. Recently, various membe…

cs.LG2022★ 10 cited

User-Level Membership Inference Attack against Metric Embedding Learning

Guoyao Li, Shahbaz Rezaei, Xin Liu

Membership inference (MI) determines if a sample was part of a victim model training set. Recent development of MI attacks focus on record-level membership inference which limits t…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

An Efficient Subpopulation-based Membership Inference Attack

Shahbaz Rezaei, Xin Liu

Membership inference attacks allow a malicious entity to predict whether a sample is used during training of a victim model or not. State-of-the-art membership inference attacks ha…

cs.LG2021

Accuracy-Privacy Trade-off in Deep Ensemble: A Membership Inference Perspective

Shahbaz Rezaei, Zubair Shafiq, Xin Liu

Deep ensemble learning has been shown to improve accuracy by training multiple neural networks and averaging their outputs. Ensemble learning has also been suggested to defend agai…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

On the Difficulty of Membership Inference Attacks

Shahbaz Rezaei, Xin Liu

Recent studies propose membership inference (MI) attacks on deep models, where the goal is to infer if a sample has been used in the training process. Despite their apparent succes…

cs.CR2019★ 6 cited

Security of Deep Learning Methodologies: Challenges and Opportunities

Shahbaz Rezaei, Xin Liu

Despite the plethora of studies about security vulnerabilities and defenses of deep learning models, security aspects of deep learning methodologies, such as transfer learning, hav…

cs.NI2019★ 116 cited

Large-scale Mobile App Identification Using Deep Learning

Shahbaz Rezaei, Bryce Kroencke, Xin Liu

Many network services and tools (e.g. network monitors, malware-detection systems, routing and billing policy enforcement modules in ISPs) depend on identifying the type of traffic…

cs.LG2019★ 90 cited

Multitask Learning for Network Traffic Classification

Shahbaz Rezaei, Xin Liu

Traffic classification has various applications in today's Internet, from resource allocation, billing and QoS purposes in ISPs to firewall and malware detection in clients. Classi…

cs.LG2019★ 7 cited

A Target-Agnostic Attack on Deep Models: Exploiting Security Vulnerabilities of Transfer Learning

Shahbaz Rezaei, Xin Liu

Due to insufficient training data and the high computational cost to train a deep neural network from scratch, transfer learning has been extensively used in many deep-neural-netwo…

cs.NI2018★ 21 cited

How to Achieve High Classification Accuracy with Just a Few Labels: A Semi-supervised Approach Using Sampled Packets

Shahbaz Rezaei, Xin Liu

Network traffic classification, which has numerous applications from security to billing and network provisioning, has become a cornerstone of today's computer networks. Previous s…

cs.NI2018★ 665 cited

Deep Learning for Encrypted Traffic Classification: An Overview

Shahbaz Rezaei, Xin Liu

Traffic classification has been studied for two decades and applied to a wide range of applications from QoS provisioning and billing in ISPs to security-related applications in fi…